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- From: henry@zoo.toronto.edu (Henry Spencer)
- Subject: Re: Networking recommendation
- Message-ID: <Bs7MtI.BD4@zoo.toronto.edu>
- Date: Thu, 30 Jul 1992 16:22:27 GMT
- References: <55590004@hpcc01.corp.hp.com> <1992Jul22.182937.643@zia.aoc.nrao.edu> <1992Jul23.130454.3965@ll.mit.edu> <xvfnblph@csv.warwick.ac.uk>
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- In article <xvfnblph@csv.warwick.ac.uk> cudep@warwick.ac.uk (Ian Dickinson) writes:
- >>3/80s don't have internal transceivers, and there's no way to just take
- >>the 15-pin ethernet ports of the 3/80s and wire them together. (Are there
- >>any electronics wizards out there who'd like to say otherwise? Maybe it's
- >>possible if you only have TWO workstations?)
- >
- >Is it possible using a direct connection between 2 10baseT tranceivers?
-
- You can connect two 10BaseT stations to each other without a hub, given
- a suitable crossover cable. It doesn't generalize to >2. It works only
- for 10BaseT, not for the raw 15-pin AUI ports.
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- There is nothing wrong with making | Henry Spencer @ U of Toronto Zoology
- mistakes, but... make *new* ones. -D.Sim| henry@zoo.toronto.edu utzoo!henry
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